Title :
A concept for hip prosthesis identification using ultra wideband radar
Author :
Lui, Hoi-Shun ; Shuley, Nicholas ; Crozier, Stuart
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., Queensland Univ., Australia
Abstract :
Ultra wideband (UWB) radar has been extensively investigated both theoretically and practically for the identification buried artifacts. Ground probe radar (GPR) concentrates on the identification of lightly buried land mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and archeological targets. The same technology is proposed in a similar context for the rapid identification of in vivo implanted metallic prostheses. The technique is based on resonance based target identification and the paper investigates UWB scattering from a metallic hip prosthesis in free space as a first step in the identification process.
Keywords :
backscatter; biomedical imaging; electromagnetic wave scattering; prosthetics; radar imaging; ultra wideband radar; E-pulse; UWB; cluttering modeling; ground probe radar; metallic hip prosthesis identification; resonance based target identification; singularity expansion method; ultra wideband radar; Ground penetrating radar; Hip; Landmine detection; Probes; Prosthetics; Radar theory; Resonance light scattering; Space technology; Ultra wideband radar; Ultra wideband technology; Cluttering Modeling; E-Pulse; Resonance Based Target Identification; Singularity Expansion Method (SEM); Ultra Wideband (UWB);
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403445
